Toy.



No. 706,||0. Patented Aug. 5, |902.

. F. D. BETTICH.

TUY

(Apiulication filed Feb. 3, 1902.)

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ZZ l y Invannr* f M2M i Nita-Laage:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK D. RETTICH, OF CINCINNATI, OI-IIO.

TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 706,110, dated August 5, 1.902.

Application-filed February 3| 1902. Serial No. 92,398. (No model.)

panying drawings, with the reference-numer-- als marked thereon, which form also a part of this specification.

This invention relates toY toys, and particularly to that class serving to be used in connection with certain-expressions, actions, or incidents which itis to illustrate to accentuate meaning thereof or to point out a certain moral. In this case the-toy is intended to illustrate practically the phrase, become popular of late, Go Wayback and sit down, the meaning of which it is to emphasize by being presented and put into action at the appropriate time.

In the following specification, and particularly pointed out in the claims following, is found a full description of the invention, together with its manner of use, parts, and construction, Which latter is also illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1, 2, and 3 show in side views modified forms of the toy. Fig. 4 is a front view of the same.

The toy consists of the representation of a human gure, preferably male, and may be a natural representation or a comical caricature=like, for instance, a brownie or a dwarf. As to material, it may be wood, paper, or papier-mch, properly colored on the outside. This figure is constructed and supported in a manner that it may be moved back and forth in a substantially horizontal direction, such change of position-that is, particularly While being moved rearwardlycausing it to assume a` sitting position when coming in contact with the base or with a seat secured thereto. In order to enable the igure to assume such a position, its legs are loosely jointed and loosely connected to the body.

In practicethe invention may be carried ont in various Ways, ofwhioh I have illusrateda'femthey all being considered equivaent.

In Fig. 1, 10 is a base of suitable material,

Wood or metal, having two upright members .1l and 12, serving as standards or supports for a bar 13, sufficiently rigid to support a iigure 14. One of these standards is lower than the other, causing bar 13 to assume a slightlyinclined position, audit passes through an opening 15 in the body of the figure, which latter is loosely fitted thereto in a manner to permit it to be slid back'and forth on said bar.V The parts of the legs of the figure are loosely jointed to each other and to the body, so that when the ligure is moved rearwardly on bar 13 the feet rst and then the legs come in contact with base 10 and cause the figure to assume a sitting posture. In being moved forward again the members straighten out and readily assume their normal position. Bar 13 is preferably of metal and liat to prevent the ligure from turning thereon, or it may be a piece of wire doubled up.

In Fig. 2 the toy is modified in this Way:

that base 10 is omitted and bar 13 is attached to a seat or chair 16. The operation is otherwise the same, the ligure assuming a sitting position when coming in contact with the seat. The free end of-bar 13 is preferably provided with a stop17 to prevent disengagement of the figure. The bar is sufficiently inclined to cause the figure to move back freely.

In Fig. 3 the toy is'modified by carrying it on a standard 18, the base of which is provided with shoes or runners 19, which are fitted against the edgesv of base 10. This requires that the edge of seat 16 be cut out to clear standard 18.

vIn Fig. 4 the toy is further modified by tting runners 19 into grooves 21 in the edges of the base.

Another modification might be by enlarging the base of standard 18 sufciently to permit the base to be slid through it, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. The movement would be a reversed one in this case-that is to say, the figure would remain stationary and vthe base would be moved, but the eect with reference to the ligure would be the same. In these last-described forms this movement is limited in one direction by seat 16 and in IOO ' member 22.

the standards on which the figure slides, or it might be affixed to a cord, the same being in form of a belt stretched over these standards and around the under side of the base and whereby the figure is moved. This cord might also be elastic and spring action be added.

The phrase above mentioned, Go Way back and sit down, may be applied in ,any suitable position to base lOe to the seat, or

It may be painted, printed, engraved,or pasted on in form of a printed slip.

It is clear that the essential feature of this invention is a igure capable of assuming a sitting position when coming in Contact with a seat after moved lbodily in a substantially horizontal direction on a support guiding it toward such seat, and such to be` done irrespective of details of construction.

Having described my invention, I claim as new- 1. Arepresentation of ahuman figure jointed so as to be capable of assuming either an upright or a sitting position, a seat for the figure and a support for it extending forwardly from the seat and on which it may be guided and moved bodily in a substantially horizontal direction to or from such seat, the v FRANK D. RETTICH.

Witnesses:

C. SPRENGEL, ARTHUR KLINE. 

